ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 42, 29 November 1940, Page 2

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. This week’s excellent double feature programme “The Return of the Cisco Kid” and “Hell’s Kitchen” will be shown finally to-night. Another magnificent performance is given by Ronald Colman who has the leading role in ‘ ‘The Light That Failed’ ’ which begins a season at the St. James to-morrow afternoon. This well known adventure and dramatic romance from the pen of Rudyard Kipling is an ideal vehicle for Ronald Colman’s outstanding talent. “The Light That Failed” tells of Dick Heldar, gay adventurer, lover and dreamer who starts out as a soldier fighting the F'uzzy-Wuzzies in British Sudan. A wound over an eye causes him to go to Ehgland where he gains fame as an .artist. He sets out to paint a London guttersnipe and his model is Bessie, a simple girl who thinks that Heldar is trying to break up her happiness. The tangled skeins of romance form thick as the picture reaches its climax, as the old -wound begins to cut off the artist’s sight. The film ends on a sad note which does not detract from the intensely passages which lead up to it. Marvellously acted, this intriguing story has everything to commend it.